pop art, n.Definitions

Pop Art is a way of liking things.

Pop Art is the indelible raised to the unspeakable.

Pop Art is popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business.

Pop Art is only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.

Pop Art is the advertising art advertising itself as art that hates advertising.

Pop Art is about two things: ordinariness and eating. It’s about daily consumption; the democratic appetite, ravenous for meat, sweets, life on the street, and getting more of everything, cheap.

Pop Art is that after which there was no longer such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

Pop Art is reflective of a ‘flight from interpretation’ in that it uses a content so blatant, so “what it is,” it ends by being uninterpretable.